New York State lawmakers moved Friday to preserve the emergency powers granted by the government to handle the coronovirus epidemic and resentment over their sexual harassment and nursing home cover-up scandals.
The New York State Senate on Friday afternoon supported new restrictions on the executive authority of Cuomo by a 43–20 vote. The state assembly is scheduled to take measures later today and is widely expected to follow suit.
Both chambers are dominated by Democrats. The measurement will then be signed by Cuomo.
“The public is qualified to keep checks and balances,” Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Westchester) said. “This law creates a system with one input, while at the same time ensuring that New Yorkers continue to be protected.”
This measure would prohibit Kyomo from making any new directives without the Legislature’s approval and would prevent the extension of any existing directives unless they were deemed “important” to public health.
The vote supports legislation along party lines with Democrats in the Senate.
The Chamber’s Republicans – long critics of Cuomo and their management of coronoviruses – voted against the measure, complaining that the new sanctions did not go too far.
Friday’s votes were scheduled by lawmakers to reoccur after new revelations in the Governor’s mansion in the uproar and nursing home scandals that besieged Cuomo and his administration.
CBS News aired a horrific interview with one of the three women on Thursday night accusing Cuomo of sexual harassment, with former employee Charlotte Bennett accusing the governor of attempting to pose for sex.
Later that night, both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times published new reporting, alleging that his administration’s top figures from the state’s Department of Health to reduce the number of coronovirus deaths associated with nursing homes were one July Manipulated the report.
Democratic discussions of curtailing Cuomo’s powers began in recent weeks, as the scandal erupted in Albany with growing frustration with the state’s vaccine rollout plan, and complaints from state officials to Mayor Bill de Blasio, including complaints from the state micromanagement.
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